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      <title>Planning for Urban Freight: Putting it Into Practice (Project J6)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The goal of this project is to apply the results of previous STRIDE research on planning for urban
freight to demonstrate the potential for stronger consideration of freight concerns in economic
development and land use planning activities. The research team will partner with the Greater Nashville Regional
Council (GNRC), Tennessee as they convene a working group around freight transportation. The team will share
findings from previous research and work with stakeholders to identify near-term opportunities to
apply research findings to Nashville’s approach. Moving goods through southeastern cities is critical to economic activity. Rising online shopping
combined with increasing urban development has led to congestion on streets and conflicts about how
to use limited curb space in towns and cities. This project will apply previous STRIDE research on
urban freight to provide regions with information about key issues and solutions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Quantifying the Impact of New Mobility on Transit Ridership </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objective of this research project is to quantify the impact of shared micromobility on transit ridership at the metropolitan level. The analysis would build upon the team’s existing TCRP study, which includes analysis of a small-sized city (Louisville, KY) that has shared scooters. In this project, a larger metropolitan area (Nashville, TN) is the focus of study. The project assesses disaggregate micromobility trips that include time, origin, destination, and route-level data against route-level transit data.  
The research is divided into two primary parts: 
Part 1: The first part of the research includes an econometric analysis of shared electric scooter trips and route-level bus ridership for Nashville, Tennessee to assess the overall impact of e-scooters on bus ridership. 
Part 2: The second part aims to identify locations for new shared electric scooter corrals in Nashville that can complement transit service and help to increase bus ridership. 
The results of Part 2 will be provided to local stakeholders and research partners (e.g., Tennessee DOT and Nashville Public Works) in the form of a list of proposed locations for new scooter corrals to complement transit for consideration for installation.  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Evaluation of Transit Priority Treatments in Tennessee</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many cities are increasingly implementing transit friendly corridors especially in urban areas. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) corridors are cited to be associated with plentiful benefits to community livability including less environmental impacts and fewer traffic congestions, fewer vehicular accidents and shorter travel times among others when compared to traditional Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV) corridors. This study desires to evaluate through microsimulation the impact of bus priority signals (BPS) and queue jump (QJ) treatments at approximately selected corridors in Nashville with the objective of evaluating how BPS and QJ improve on-time service reliability and bus travel times as part of TOD. This will respond to the problems currently faced in Tennessee and Nashville metropolitan area in general that is experiencing worsening traffic congestion and, which is a side effect of s steady population growth. The study findings and recommendations are expected to be used for the development of transit supportive land use guidelines, policies and tools to support Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and corridor development.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:23:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Regional Traffic and Safety Information Dissemination - Phase II</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Nashville Metropolitan Organization (MPO) area is home to several local transportation agencies, many with their own intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) also has made significant investment in this area and throughout the state. Significant opportunities are available to maximize the overall effectiveness and efficiency of these separate systems, and each agency would benefit from coordinating their systems, using standardized means of disseminating information, and sharing and syndicating travel information where possible. Vanderbilt recently completed a project to assess the feasibility of integrating local agencies into the TDOT SmartWay Information System (TSIS) as well as how to assist local agencies with syndicating relevant traffic and safety information from SmartWay. Local transportation agencies are receptive to this regional approach to traffic and safety information dissemination. Vanderbilt will investigate mechanisms for interfacing one or more agencies with TSIS and will design and build a template for the agency to make use of TSIS RSS feeds. This pilot should lead to greater use of syndicated traffic information and increased communication between local agencies and TDOT. The project will also develop a working prototype for other local agencies to emulate. TDOT has a powerful real-time traffic and safety information system in TSIS, the coverage of the system is limited to what TDOT field employees can observe. By incorporating local transportation agencies into TSIS, TDOT will expand its coverage and receive more information from these agencies about activities and events within their respective jurisdictions. Project results will be implemented by the following: - Formal briefings with appropriate TDOT staff following completion of each major task - Preparation and presentation of a final report - Publication of a peer-reviewed article documenting the research approach and results of the pilot project]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:29:19 GMT</pubDate>
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